INTEGRATED ELECTRICAL SOLUTIONS EXPO, Detroit, Mich., June 2, 2011 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced today a significant expansion of the company’s Capital® product suite. Already offering a powerful electrical system and wire harness design flow for the automotive, aerospace and defence industries, the Capital suite now includes three new products that extend that flow both upstream and downstream. With the introduction of new tools addressing configuration complexity, harness manufacturing and vehicle documentation … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Announces New Capital Tools that Expand Coverage Beyond the Electrical Design Domain"

CAMPBELL, Calif. – June 1, 2011 – Sigrity, Inc., the market leader in signal and power integrity solutions, today announced the SystemSI™ family of signal integrity analysis solutions – the industry’s first comprehensive environment for end-to-end simulations of high-speed signal interfaces. Unlike previous approaches that analyze timing margin phenomena in an isolated, piecemeal manner to predict overall margins, Sigrity’s SystemSI family brings everything together within a single environment to streamline the development of high-speed products. It includes a block-based editor, support for standard modeling formats, automated model connections and highly accurate simulation, resulting in the … Read More → "Sigrity Takes High-Speed Chip-to-Chip Analysis to the Next Level with SystemSI"

SAN JOSE, Calif.  June 2, 2011 –   Solido Design Automation Inc., the leading provider of variation analysis and design software for custom integrated circuits, today announced that TSMC has expanded Solido Variation Designer deployment in its Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) Reference Flow 2.0, a critical component of TSMC’s 28nm design infrastructure.  Solido Variation Designer products will be included in the following five TSMC AMS sub flows:

• Advanced PVT sub flow
• Advanced Monte Carlo sub flow
• Layout-Dependent Effects (LDE) Constraint Creation sub flow
• Parasitic Constraint Creation … Read More → "Solido for Variation Analysis and Design in TSMC Analog/Mixed-Signal Reference Flow 2.0"

San jose, calif., June 1, 2011 —Pulsic, the premier provider of physical design tools for custom design automation, will introduce the Pulsic Planning Solution™ at DAC 2011 in San Diego. A completely integrated full-chip solution built ‘from the ground up’ for custom, analog and mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs), the Pulsic Planning Solution automates planning and top-level routing functionality. The Pulsic … Read More → "Pulsic to Introduce Integrated, Full-chip Planning and Top-level Routing Solution for Custom IC Design at DAC 2011"